- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Foreword
- Prologue
- 1 What Is a Producer?
- 2 Changes to the Independent Marketplace
- 3 The Global Marketplace
- 4 How to TAP into the Marketplace
- 5 The Domestic Market, Festivals, and Market Value
- 6 Identifying and Developing a Film Based on Trend and Analysis
- 7 Now That I Have My Script, What Do I Do?
- 8 Investors, Actors, Attorneys, Agents, Managers, Business Managers
- 9 Film Production Basics
- 10 How to Manage Production Costs
- Learn Smaller to Get Bigger
- Unions and Guilds
- IATSE and Teamsters: Negotiate
- Reduce the Number of Locations
- Reduce or Eliminate Distant Locations and Save Money
- Reduce the Number of Speaking Roles
- Reduce Night Exteriors
- Reduce Company Moves
- Reduce Days or Weeks of Equipment Rental
- Reduce the Number of Shooting Days
- Rethink Expensive Sequences
- Reduce Vehicles, Drivers, Fuels, and Transportation
- Lay Low and Publicize Later
- Budgeting Software
- Creating a Schedule for the Picture
- Low-budget Shooting Schedules
- Stagger Actors’ Call Times
- 11 Mounting a Production
- Tricks of the Trade
- Production Staff and Pre-production
- Protect Yourself from Personal Liability
- Hire Motivated Multitaskers
- Payroll
- Production Office
- SAG, the Thirty Mile Zone (TMZ), and Locations
- Overtime
- Local Rules
- Buy and Return
- Hair and Makeup
- Grip and Electric
- Shooting with Multiple Cameras
- Print and Pickup
- Loss and Damage
- Vehicles and Transportation
- Security
- Shooting out of Sequence
- Meals
- Seek Local Hires
- The Editor and the Director
- Music and the Composer
- Extras
- Producers Set the Tone
- Real Producers Are Filmmakers
- After Wrap
- 12 Navigating the Actors’ Union
- 13 Respect for the Dollar
- 14 The Internet and New Media
- 15 Marketing and Publicity
- 16 Recap
- Appendix A: Major Entertainment Conglomerates and their Holdings as of 2013
- Appendix B: IFTA Model Sales Agency Agreement Completed Picture: Basic Form
- Appendix C: IFTA Model Sales Agency Agreement Completed Picture: With Advance
- Appendix D: Sales Projections and Participation Statement
- Appendix E: Sample Collection Agreement
- Appendix F: Sample Writer Option Purchase Agreement
- Appendix G: Sample Writer Work for Hire Agreement
- Appendix H: Sample Writer Step Deal Agreement
- Appendix I: Sample Post-production Schedule
- Appendix J: Sample Delivery Schedule
- Appendix K: Full Non-union Budget
- Appendix L: Non-union Top Sheet
- Appendix M: Union Comparison Top Sheet
- Appendix N: Standard Terms
- Appendix O: SAG Studio Zone Map
- Appendix P: Sample Shooting Schedule
- Appendix Q: Sample Call Sheet
- Appendix R: Sample Production Report
- Appendix S: Sample Composer Agreement
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